[ale] video card recommendation?

[Chris Ricker]

On Mon, 26 May 2003, Marvin Dickens wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 19:19, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> >>>>>>>BIG snip for brevity<<<<<<<<
> 
> 
> > I have just bought a Matrox card (due to Geoffrey and Suse's comments) and an 
> > ATI to see if one will install correctly from boot.
> 
> The Matrox cards are probably the best supported cards in Linux if you
> look at it from a single video card vendor point of view. Further, my
> experience with Matrox cards goes all the way back to the old IBM
> 6150/51 RT: Matrox made the MegaPixel frame buffer card that went into 
> that machine. For it's time, that card was *AWESOME*.

Only if you care only for 2d.

General rules of thumb:

* best 2d (in terms of image quality) - matrox. Drivers are mostly open 
source, though getting dualhead on G400 (not G450) requires binary only 
stuff from matrox

* best 2d and 3d with open source drivers - ATI

* best 3d, closed source - NVIDIA

later,
chris
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